Mark Bradley lets us in on a secret today – Mark Richt isn’t on a hot seat, but he could be fitted with a nice looking model if his program doesn’t perform well this season.

This is presented as some sort of significant insight, I suppose.

Put it this way: Evans and Adams aren’t paying a first-time defensive coordinator $750,000 just to make this program competitive. They’re paying big money because they want to win big.

Gosh, I had no clue.

Bradley has a point that whatever dismissals Evans and Adams made this week about the media’s hot seat speculation don’t mean much, but that simply begs the question of whether the speculation is valid in the first place.

… I’ve tried to be politically correct on this issue and realize there are passions at work here. So let me just put it in language that is a little more to the point: If you think that Richt, who has won 90 games in nine years in the toughest college football environment in the world, is on some kind of hot seat then you are living in an alternative universe that is completely divorced from reality.

Yes, Georgia had a disappointing season in 2009. Changes were made. Very soon it will be time to play another season. Then Richt will evaluate the program again and Richt will be evaluated again. Period. End of discussion.

UPDATE: I give Bradley credit for one thing. He’s not afraid to double down on teh stoopid.

… Paul Johnson could lose the next 12 and get drubbed by Georgia 51-7 and punch Dan Radakovich in the face and it wouldn’t much matter. Because Georgia Tech fans love the man. They love him more than they loved George O’Leary, which is saying something. They love him because he’s not only a really good coach but because he carries himself exactly the way Tech people believe a Tech person should.

Which is?

… He acts the way every Tech fan wants to act — aggressive, self-assured, disdaining of critics, in awe of no one. If you were drawing up the ideal Georgia Tech football coach in one of the laboratories at the North Avenue Trade School, he’d be it.

Looking at that picture of CMR and DE in the Bradley article, I just realized who DE reminds me of. And perhaps it’s just me but he kind of looks a little bit like international soccer star Ronaldo. I’ve never seen the two together. Just sayin’.

“They love [CPJ] because he’s not only a really good coach but because [CPJ] carries himself exactly the way Tech people believe a Tech person should,” just like when the Iowa defensive coordinator smacked CPJ in the face with a nein man line.

I guess Paul Johnson is Tech’s lost manhood. I don’t see why CMR isn’t the same “fit” for most Georgia fans. I think he is exactly what Georgia fans want in a head coach as most Georgia fans aren’t insecure like Tech fans are.

I will say this though, CPJ can be quite entertaining. I read about this interaction with a reporter while he was at Navy a while back. Well before Tech was even looking for a coach. Anyway it goes something like this:

Reporter: I was talking to a friend of mine who made the observation that it seems like when Navy wins you take all of the credit and when they lose its the players fault. How do you respond?

CPJ: Tell your friend that I don’t go down to the McDonald’s and tell him how to do his job.

I’ll tell you what. You get your friend to find one example of that and I’ll kiss his ass at high noon in the center of town and give him 2 days to draw a crowd.

Quote Of The Day

“It's definitely different not knowing exactly who it's gonna be, but in a way, I feel like that's good,” he said. “One of my old coaches from Valdosta told me that competition is one of the best coaches. And I feel like, as well as each one of those three guys is performing, they're not gonna do anything but make each other better.” -- Jay Rome, The Red & Black, 3/25/15